New Product Development

We will deliver an end product that meets your specifications, the highest quality standards as well as competitive price points for your niche application.

CRS Electronics offers an OEM, contract manufacturing and private labeling service for clients who need a custom luminaire solution. We leverage our industry expertise and supply chain expertise to custom build an OEM luminaire to meet your specific requirements, and provide a complete service from initial concept to design, certification, final manufacturing and documentation.

We design to all industry standard compliances in lighting, environmental protection, hazardous location, vibration and water ingress. We apply a proven Stage-Gate development methodology that establishes a clear, transparent and efficient communication process with our client, keeping you in the loop through the entire product development cycle. We begin with your design ideas and deliver an exceptional ready-to-manufacture end product meeting all industry standards.

Our Process

Listen

This is the first stage of our relationship with any new client. We listen to the needs of the client, which is what leads the design process.

WORK

We listen carefully to our client’s needs, identify the lighting objectives, delivery schedule and budget as well as all the important lighting parameters in order to define the specific program for the project. If the client already has a lighting brief and concept drawings for our team, and our team successfully vets the design, we can jump immediately to Design stage.

DELIVERABLES

A Lighting Brief that captures all the pertinent details of the customers requirements for a custom luminaire designed, consisting of:

We work with the client to do upfront project planning, identifying delivery date, key deliverables and milestones as well as set up the teams and communication protocol to enable the customer to monitor the design process closely and provide critical feedback.

Concept Design

When the client formally signs off on the Lighting Brief, it triggers the start of Concept Design / Ideation stage.

WORK

Development of a complete, detailed high level engineering lighting product draft specification that meets all the client’s specifications and lighting industry standards. This specification consolidates all the information gathered in the Listening stage and serves as talking points with the client to proceed with a full design in the next stage.

DELIVERABLES

Mechanical and packaging concept drawings

User interfaces and operation

System Architecture drawings

Photometric rendering of optical beam patterns

Highlights of any design challenges

Optional high level software system specification

Written datasheet design specifications

Granular Bill of Materials

Estimated prototyping / design costs and per unit production cost including all certifications

Work flow, delivery schedule and milestones

Payment schedule

Detailed Design

When the client formally signs off the Concept Design Brief, it triggers the start of the Detailed Design stage.

WORK

A full team of electrical, mechanical, process, software & optical scientists, engineers, technologists and industrial designers collaborate to create all the detailed design documents. The package of specifications, drawings, schematics and studies are sent to our team of manufacturing engineers and to the client for feedback & approval.

DELIVERABLES

3D rendering of the final product

Complete photometric 3D heat map model of the different design optical beam patterns of the luminaire operating in design scenarios of the target environment(s)

Full written engineering specification designed to customer and industry standard specifications

Prototype

When our internal team of manufacturing engineers and the client both formally sign off the Detailed Design Package, it triggers the start of the Prototype stage.

WORK

A full team of electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing engineers, technologists and supply chain buyers collaborate on a prototype production run to manufacture a small number of prototypes that meets the specifications generated in the design package. This includes manufacture of the expensive dies or molds for the package. The prototype is delivered to the internal testing division for final testing.

DELIVERABLES

One or more fully functional production prototypes that meets the Detailed Design Package specifications is sent to the internal manufacturing testing division. Functional or non-functional prototypes may be delivered to client’s engineers as well at this stage for field testing or marketing purposes.

Full Production

When all manufacturing tool-up, standards and certifications are completed, it triggers full production to begin on predetermined date.

WORK

This is the last stage, full production. It is the culmination of the entire development cycle, when we are ready to manufacture and deliver fully functional, packaged and tested production units that meet all industry standards. The final units are branded with your private label and ready to ship out to anywhere in the world. A full documentation manual is also included along with any configuration software.

DELIVERABLES

Final production manufacturing of custom private label luminaire, fully factory-tested, configured, branded and packaged, ready to deliver to clients anywhere on the planet.

Testing

When a limited number of prototypes have been successfully manufactured, these are delivered to our manufacturing testing division.

WORK

We perform a series of tests to validate that the prototype specifications and quality & industry compliance standards. This provides feedback to designers who can tweak the design if required. During this stage, we also perform compliance standards checking, to ensure that the product is as ready as possible for submission to standards testing agencies for full compliance standards testing.

DELIVERABLES

All non-certification testing including all environmental testing

A Test Report that summarizes fully bench and field tested units that meets all in-house manufacturing and client design and application specifications

This includes comparison of photometric design models with real field photonic measurements

All final test results fall within original design specification acceptance error bands

Tooling

When a limited number of prototypes have been successfully tested, these are delivered to our manufacturing and certification division.

WORK

During the production tooling stage we begin to prepare for a smooth transition to the full production manufacturing process. Production manufacturing tooling is done to ensure all production tools and equipment are ready, all assembly and testing stations are ready and full compliance certification is commenced. Final branding design is also done to private label the product.